German

Verb

henken ‎(third-person singular simple present henkt, past tense henkte, past participle gehenkt, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive, dated or archaic) to hang; to execute by hanging

Usage notes

• Inflected forms in which the stem henk- is followed by a consonant are—according to any not stilted pronunciation—homophonous to the corresponding forms of hängen, and can therefore be considered spelling variants of the latter. Some writers may use the spelling henk- instead of häng- because it is suggestive of Henker ‎(“hangman”).
• Those forms in which the stem henk- is not followed by a consonant, are audibly distinct from hängen. These are rarely used.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• hängen (etymology 2)

Derived terms

• Henker

Japanese

Romanization

henken

1. rōmaji reading of へんけん